September 4, 2008
A truly search engine friendly shopping cart
I've been promising a Sunshop shopping cart review, particularly since Turnkey Web Tools' php-based Sunshop 4 is a huge enhancement over the earlier excellent versions, and lots of additional little tweaks have been added since the initial release (we've up to version 4.1.5). Let me put it this way — I've just completed two (of three) ecommerce sites utilizing Sunshop 4, and am about to launch into a fourth. While I'm great at kvetching, you'll hear no complaints from me. more…
July 15, 2008
WordPress 2.6 has been released, and it has useful new features. Watch the video below or watch the larger version at the WordPress blog:
One thing: the Press It feature allows you to add a button to your browser toolbar and then, as you surf the web and feel like blogging, just click the button to have your WP window pop up … then start blogging. It'll also allow you to quote sections of text — and use images from the webpage you're visiting. All but the last sound good to me. In the past, bloggers had to jump through a couple of hoops, albeit elementary, in order to snatch images from websites. Now WordPress helps them do it. <sigh>
That said, given the, uh, ongoing nature of my web surfing, and the fact that I've got four blogs now, I think I'll keep an eye on the WordPress forums for any gotcha's. And then I'm going to upgrade.
July 13, 2008
One of the beauties of Opera is it's Speed Dial feature … a "page" containing nine slots in which you can specify websites to open at the click of the mouse. The problem, though, is that this feature (which I initially thought was silly, but grew to love) gets full pretty quickly, so nine slots does not quite do it. Especially if you have a large monitor. more…
June 29, 2008
The Start > Documents menu in Windows lists the documents (files) you've most recently accessed. According to Annoyances.org's instructions for turning off the Document menu: more…
June 27, 2008
A tip from our friend Michael Prince, something to enjoy: The Website is Down.
Hint: the big clue is not too far into the video.
April 23, 2008
Somewhere along the line, I got myself subscribed to the MyFonts.com newsletter. I think I was going to buy a font, and then didn't. When it arrived (the newsletter, not the font), I couldn't have been more surprised and delighted. Because the MyFonts.com newsletter is a real treat. more…
